Lake Wales will not seek a new police chief after all. A week after announcing the planned firing of Chief Chris Velasquez, Lake Wales City Manager James Slaton announced at Tuesday night’s City ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lake Wales Police Chief Chris Velasquez has been placed on suspension by Lake Wales City Manager James Slaton, who says he'll ...

It appears that Lake Wales is not in danger of losing its city manager after all. James Slaton, the city manager since 2020, has applied for the same position with at least three other cities in ...

Lake Wales, Polk County’s sixth-largest city with a population of about 17,000, has a “weak mayor” system of government, meaning the mayor is a city commissioner with limited extra powers, such as ...

Lake Wales Envisioned contains much more than the concept of the Big Green Network. The guidebook focuses on four areas: economy, green, neighborhoods and mobility. The “economy” section, for example, ...